Example sentences of "but then you [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But then you 'll want to come back , ’ said Calatin , ‘ because it stands to reason that you wo n't want to stay in the Future — well , no one would . |
| 2 | But then you might feel that you 're going backwards but you still just modify your position to keep that gap there . |
| 3 | But then you might worry , if I 'm bound to come back down again , how can I guarantee that I come back down into the right erm body again . |
| 4 | But then you would know about that — your business , that must have taken a fair amount of hard work . ’ |
| 5 | All men were the same , of course : they all liked to hold the floor while the womenfolk listened respectfully , but then you 'd think a Turk would be more interesting . |
| 6 | ‘ Losing the will to go on fighting — but then you 'd know that better than me . ’ |
| 7 | But then you 'd have to become self employed and teach aerobics . |
| 8 | On its own it 's weighty enough ; but then you must add fourteen golf clubs , a dozen or so balls , an umbrella , a set of waterproofs , spare sweaters , caps and visors , half a dozen golf gloves , a book of rules , tins of sweets , bars of chocolates , apples , bananas and other fruit and , in Jack Mason 's case , sometimes a couple of bottles of strong beer . |
| 9 | But then you can watch a film and a series on Central all the way through , without having to wait from about five minutes to ten , almost , not literally , but almost through till about er five to eleven . |
| 10 | Heavy going at first , but then you can get into it . ’ |
| 11 | But , Debbie was just getting to the stage where she was just to same on the shift , erm , but yes , you need , like , th , the , you get certain people that , they just need the challenge , but then you can find yourself erm , getting into a situation where you 're giving them those extra things to do but you 're taking them away from somebody else , so they 're like just going into the background , you know . |
| 12 | but then you can have them back . |
| 13 | You may be amazed that such an obvious shortcoming to a staff plan should have continued to escape my notice , but then you will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time ; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event . |
| 14 | Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board . |